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Medill-USA Today project details a Navy fleet stretched dangerously thin one year after destroyer collisions killed 17 sailors

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It has been about a year since the deadly back-to-back collisions in the Pacific Ocean involving the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain raised troubling questions about how two state-of-the-art U.S. warships could have collided with large merchant vessels in heavily trafficked waters. A special national security project by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University and USA Today published today, June 25, highlights underlying flaws in readiness, training and leadership that have the Navy racing to correct course to prevent such tragedies from happening again.

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National Press Club: Press, Free Speech Groups Question Raid on Reporter’s Records

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Following the Justice Department’s seizure of a reporter’s phone and email communications without prior notice, The National Press Club, PEN America and more than a dozen other leading organizations representing professional journalists and free speech advocates are demanding an explanation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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    Medill Washington and National War College students simulate reaction to South China seas war game

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    On May 10, the National War College, which educates senior military and civilian agency leaders for high-level command and policy positions, hosted 15 Medill graduate students for the day. After a morning discussion of civil-military relations, the students conducted a war game – a simulation of how journalists and officials at the Pentagon, White House and State Department would deal with a hypothetical crisis in the South China Sea involving China, Japan and Vietnam.

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